Mission
Department of English Language and Translation strives to provide high quality instruction, develop students’ knowledge and practical and cognitive skills necessary, build cross-cultural competencies, conduct theoretical and applied research, render essential community services, and adhere to principles of ethics.
Objectives
- Acquainting students with the basic linguistic, teaching, editing, and translation and interpreting principles, theories, strategies and methods.
- Introducing students to socio-cultural contexts associated with Arabic and English languages.
- Improving students’ competency level in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Providing students with extensive training necessary for editing, translation, teaching English as a second language, and conducting quality research.
- Developing a linguistic, practical and professional understanding of the nature of the translation process and its various fields.
- Demonstrating proficiency in using the appropriate learning resources and computer-assisted translation tools.
- Working independently and in teams.
- Applying different translation strategies and methods based on the nature and domain of the text.